[Coral-List] using bubbles to remove CO2 from reef water
Steve Mussman
sealab at earthlink.net
Mon May 2 14:51:27 EDT 2016
Hi Stephen,
Of course the diving industry is diverse even in their beliefs relating to
climate change, but I'm referring to industry leaders. We could argue all
day about who comprises the "leadership of our industry", but I'm pointing
the finger directly at DEMA. Climate change, ocean acidification,
over-fishing and land-based pollutants are basically off their radar as I
see it. They act as if nothing is happening. We have an opportunity to
empower divers to become advocates for moving policies and turning things
around, but that's not going to happen as long as our industry's power
structure remains in denial. I understand the fact that talk of declining
reefs isn't good for business, but how are we to have hope that we can
reverse the trend if our industry perpetuates the illusion (that all is
well) by refusing to openly address these issues? As I see it, all of us in
the industry have a moral responsibility to become activists for our oceans
and coral reefs. We have taken from it and built our business upon it. This
is a critical time and the diving industry should be out in front, not
laying low hiding in the sea grass.
Warm regards,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Frink
Sent: May 2, 2016 2:08 PM
To: Steve Mussman
Cc: Bill Allison , Ellen Prager
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] using bubbles to remove CO2 from reef water
Steve - What makes you think the dive industry disbelieves climate change
and/or CO2 issues? Anyone I dive with, most of whom have several
decadesâ experience seeing changes in the reef ecosystems we dive,
realizes we have issues. Anecdotal perhaps, but so is a broad brush
painting all.
Stephen
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On May 2, 2016, at 8:40 AM, Steve Mussman <[7]sealab at earthlink.net> wrote:
This presents the diving industry with a rather perplexing dilemma.
They could cite this study to promote the idea that coral reefs benefit from
our bubbles, but then they would be forced to admit that a problem relating
to rising CO2 levels actually exists.
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On May 2, 2016, at 7:18 AM, Bill Allison <[8]allison.billiam at gmail.com>
wrote:
So, the small issues of thermodynamic considerations and the ultimate fate
of the CO2 aside, divers may help reefs?
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Douglas Fenner <
[9]douglasfennertassi at gmail.com> wrote:
Protecting coral reefs with bubbles
[10]https://earth.stanford.edu/news/protecting-coral-reefs-bubbles
Open-access
Original article:
Bubble stripping as a tool to reduce high dissolved CO2 in coastal marine
ecosystems. Environmental Science & Technology
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b04733
not open-access, note author's email address
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